HUIT experienced a notice incident on June 2, 2025 affecting Other Services, lasting 22h 49m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jun 02, 2025, 03:22 PM UTC
The AI Watson chat feature of the IT Help portal - https://harvard.service-now.com/ithelp - is currently unavailable. To receive support from HUIT teams please call the service desk at 617-495-7777 or send an email to [email protected] Our vendor is investigating the cause of this outage and we will provide updates as more information becomes available.
- investigating Jun 02, 2025, 05:58 PM UTC
Our vendor is continuing to investigate the underlying cause of this outage. The Chat function of the IT Service Portal - https://harvard.service-now.com/ithelp - remains unavailable. To receive support from HUIT teams please call the service desk at 617-495-7777 or send an email to [email protected]. We will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates from our vendor.
- identified Jun 02, 2025, 08:17 PM UTC
Our vendor has informed us that they are working on a recovery path that involves bringing the AI Watson system up in a controlled manner. Remediation is being rolled out across the platform and may take some time to restore our systems. We will provide an update once our chat functionality has returned to normal operations. Please continue to seek support by calling the HUIT Service Desk at 617-495-7777 or sending an email to [email protected]
- resolved Jun 03, 2025, 02:12 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.